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WordPress Auto Install on GoDaddy

With GoDaddy’s Deluxe Hosting, you can set up an unlimited amount of websites. Using their auto installer for WordPress, you can have your WordPress site up in under ten minutes.

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WordPress Tutorial: Adding a Hyperlink

Using the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editing in WordPress, it’s easy to add a link to your site’s page/post/content. Watch the screencast to see it magically done before your eyes.

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StudioPress WordPress Themes

Brian Gardner over at (what’s now called) StudioPress has a beautiful collection of professional WordPress themes for sale. He updates them regularly and has a broad collection with a variety of applications (real estate, photo galleries, etc.).

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WordPress Tutorial: Cleaning Up Microsoft Word Formatting

If you paste content from Microsoft Word (or any formatted content) directly into the editing area of the WordPress backend, chances are a bunch of formatting code will come with it. Here’s a video to help clean up the mess.

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WordPress 2.7 Arrives

Check out this preview video (suitable for all audiences) showing off some of the hot new features of WordPress 2.7.

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Elegant WordPress Themes

You’d think, “Hey, Likoma, you’re a WordPress developer, why are you promoting other themes on your site?” Well, in a word: WOW.

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10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7

Like WordPress 2.5, the bulk of the changes affect the WordPress admin. Unlike WordPress 2.5, however, this is not merely an update of the backend but a complete rebuilding.

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WordPress Tutorial: Simple Image Gallery with Captions

We wanted to get some images into WordPress side by side and with captions, but also in categories on the same page.

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The Accidental Santera

Irete Lazo’s The Accidental Santera brings together the beauty of the book, its colors, its icons and shapes, and the feature-rich backend of WordPress.

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Things to Consider when Choosing WordPress as a CMS

Thord Daniel Hedengren says that people say he’s crazy to use WordPress when there are obviously some more “powerful” applications out there. His response, “I know WordPress.” I have to agree. I’d also add, “I know and LOVE WordPress.” Also, I want to do one thing and do it well. I don’t want to learn [...]

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WordPress 2.6 Launched

WordPress 2.6 brings some speedy features as well as some I’ve been waiting for e.g. image captions!

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NextGen Gallery: upload_max_filesize

The fabulous NextGen Gallery was maxing (timing) out when uploading zip files. My server said it could only handle 2 MB uploads, so I went searching. Most help said to make changes to the .htaccess file, but I did that and I think my host has something set up (suexec or something) that doesn't allow [...]

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WordPress Tutorial: Image Captions and Text Alignment

Captions for images are tricky enough, then add text alignment (wrapping) and CSS and it's a recipe for disaster. Using the "Image Caption" plugin for WordPress and the simple alignment tool in WordPress, I'll walk through aligning images, their captions, and the surrounding text.

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WordPress “comments” in .htaccess file

I didn't realize I needed the WordPress "comments" in the .htaccess file. I just learned the hard way as a site went down, I checked the .htaccess file (one of the first places I look for a 500 error) and it looked like this: PLAIN TEXT CODE: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond [...]

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Navigo

Business Capital has a nice horizontal menu with drop-downs. Most of them are just (parent) pages with children and then grandchildren. Fine, good, works fine. But either it was a glitch or just too late at night, but when on a sibling page, the drop-downs for that parent no longer dropped down. Hmm. Tried some [...]

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